[Grace-core] Fwd: Some notes on pattern matching on the wiki

James Noble kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz
Tue Jul 5 19:47:31 PDT 2011


>> not sure yet. I think we are close to committing to something close to gBeta/Newspeak/ (Ceylon?) view 
>> but haven't hurtled over that waterfall quite yet.


> NO! NO! NO!  Modules are not nested classes!!!  They have nothing to do with each other!!!!  Modules are modules -- they are not used for generating new objects and are not extended using inheritance. 

Ok, so maybe we're further from "hurtling over that waterfall" than I thought. 

> I wish you hadn't posted that without discussing it first ...

I was posting it to further the discussion, that's all.

>  Why confuse the two very different concepts????

that's another question.  
It seems to work for Newspeak, at least.

James


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